Combination jacket and school bag



Feb. 1951 J. SlLlN 2,970,316

COMBINATION JACKET AND SCHOOL BAG Filed Aug. 21, 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR.

JACOB A 77 O/P/VE X51 Feb. 9 J. SlLlN 2,970,316

COMBINATION JACKET AND SCHOOL BAG Filed Aug. 21, 1957 2 Sheets$heet 2 INVENTOR.

JACOB SILIN A TTO/PA/EVI,

United States Patent i 2,970,316 COMBINATION JACKET AND scHooL BAG Jacob Silin, 8616 Hull Drive, Philadelphia 18, Pa.

Filed Aug. 21, 1957, Ser. No. 679,370

4 Claims. f or. 2 -94 This invention relates to an article of clothing or wearing apparel, the primary object of which is to provide acombination jacket and school bag wherein the jacket and school bag may be fabricated of the same or contrasting colors and materials.

Another object of the invention is toprovide a, jacket, a school bag having straps secured thereto, the straps passing over the shoulders of the jacket and one of a number of means for removably 'sec uring the straps to the front of the jacket, the means being such that it can be easily manipulated by a young person and of such appearance as to attractively blend withthe appearance of the jacket. 1 1

A further object of the invention is to. provide a combined jacket and school bag of the character described with epaulet means on'the shoulders to restrain the shoulder straps from slipping off the shoulders.

A further object of the invention ist'o 'providea combined jacket and school bag of the character described wherein the shoulder straps are secured to the top and front of the school bag instead of the back so that when books and other articles are placed in the school bag, the weight thereof will urge the school bag against the childs back.

Yet another object of the invention is to provide a combined jacket and school bag of the character described wherein the free end of one of the shoulder straps is apertured and the free end of the other shoulder strap includes a buckle so that the straps may be secured together and the school bag carried separately if desired, there being pouch means on the front of the jacket to receive and conceal the free ends of the shoulder straps when they are removably secured to the jacket in the school bag carrying position.

These and other objects of the invention will become more apparent as the following description proceeds in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the combined jacket and school bag;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof;

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation thereof;

Fig. 4 is a plan view looking from line 4- 4 on Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary enlarged view of the front of the jacket showing the hook method of attaching the shoulder straps thereto;

Fig. 7 is a sectional view taken on the line 7-7 of Fig. 1;

Referring first to Figs. 1-7, the article, is generally indicated at 10 and consists of a jacket 12 of generally conventional construction having shoulder portions 14 and 16 which extend to the sleeve head portions 18 and 20.

The school bag 22 is of conventional construction and maybe fabricated of a material and color which either matches the jacket or contrasts therewith, as desired. It will be noted that the school bag is of pouch form and includes a closure flap 24 which can be buckled as at 26 to the front of the school bag.

A pair of relatively narrow elongated straps 28 and 30 are provided which are sewn or otherwise secured as at 32 and 34 to the closure fiap 24 of the school bag just forward of the fold line 36 of the school bag. The purpose for this is that when the straps 28 and 30 are removably secured to the front of the jacket as will which would not be the case if the straps 28 and were secured to the back of the school bag.

The straps 28 and 30passover the shoulder portions 14 and 16 of the jacket and a means is provided to restrain or prevent the straps from sliding off the shoulder portions of the jacket. This means comprises epaulets 38 and 40 which are sewn or otherwise secured across the shoulder portions 14 and 16 of the jacket and are located between the straps 28 and 30 and the sleevehead portions 18 and 20. The thickness of each epaulet exceeds the thickness of the straps; 28 and 50. It will thus'b'e seen that a child can place the straps 28 and 30 around the shoulder portions 14 and 16 of the jacket without the necessity of going through any looping manipulation.

Various means of removably securing the shoulder straps 28 and 30 to the front 42 of the jacket may be employed as shown in the drawings. One of such means is shown in Figs. 1 to 7 and comprises two rows of vertically spaced bars 44, the ends of which bars may be sewn or otherwise secured to the front of the jacket as at 46, there being loops 48 of the same material as the Fig. 8 is a view similar to Fig. 6 showing a snap 7 button method of attaching the shoulder straps to the jacket;

Fig. 9 is a view similar to Fig. 6 showing a button jacket which are sewn to the jacket to conceal the means 46 for securing each bar to the front of the jacket as shown clearly in the drawings.

Sewn or otherwise secured to the undersurface of the shoulder straps 28 and 30 are vertically spaced openended hooks 50 which can be made to removably engage the bars 44 on the front of the jacket thereby suspending the school bagon the back of the jacket.

In order that the school bag be so constructed as to make it possible for the child to carry the same independently of the jacket, one of the shoulder straps 28 may be provided with apertures 52 and the end of the other shoulder strap 30 may be provided with a buckle 54 for engagement with the apertures 52 in the strap 28. For purposes of appearance, open-ended pouches or pockets 56 and 58 may be provided on the front 42 of the jacket I curing the shoulder-straps 28 and 30 to the front of the jacket comprises two rows of verticallyspaced buttons 64 which are secured to the front 42 of the jacket for engagement in vertically spaced button holes 66 in the shoulder straps 28 and 30.

As shown in-Fig. 10, another means for removably securing the shoulder straps to the front of the jacket comprises a short strap 68 which is secured to one portion of the front of the jacket, said short strap carrying a buckle 70 at its end. At another portion of the front of the jacket there is secured a short apertured strap 72. The buckle 70 on the short strap 68 engages with the apertures 52 inthe shoulder strap 28 and the apertured strap 72 on the jacket engages with the buckle 54 on the other shoulder strap 30.

Thus it will be seen that an article of wearing apparel is provided wherein the school bag can be easily and removably attached to the jacket with a minimum of manipulation capable of performance by a young child and which, at the same time, is attractive and utilitarian.

Minor variations may be made in the construction of the article without departing from the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A combined article of clothing and accessory comprising a jacket, a pouch school bag having a rear wall bearing against the back of the jacket, a front wall spaced from and connected to said rear wall and an open upper end, a flap having one edge hingedly secured to said rear wall adjacent said open upper end and arranged to overlap said front wall to close said open upper end, means removable securing said overlapping flap portion to said front wall, a pair of straps, each of said straps having one end secured to said flap in laterally spaced relation to each other and extending over the shoulders to the front of said jacket, epaulets secured across the shoulders of said jacket adjacent the corresponding jacket sleeve in positions to laterally engage said straps, thereby restraining them from slipping off the shoulders, means removably securing said straps to the front and on the outside of said jacket, and poucheson the front of the jacket receiving the free ends of said straps.

2. The article of claim 1 wherein said means removably securing the straps to the jacket includes vertically spaced bars secured to the front of the jacket and spaced hooks carried at the undersurface of the straps removably engaging said bars.

3. The article of claim 1 wherein said means removably securing the straps to the jacket includes snap fasteners. e

4. The article of claim 1 wherein said means removably securing the straps to the jacket includes vertically spaced buttons on the front of the jacket and button holes in the straps in which the buttons are removably engaged.

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